[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#501219: Bug#501219: cups: Fails to add HP Laserjet Printer in web frontend

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Wolf,

Wolf Wiegand [2008-10-05 19:12 +0200]:
> I am trying to add an HP Laserjet 1010 printer to CUPS using the
> webfrontend.

> After entering these values and hitting 'Add printer', my
> browser waits for the next page to show, but no answer is coming from
> cups anymore. Iceweasel just shows 'loading' for a long time and finally
> displays a blank page.
> 
> strace on cupsd reveals:
> 
> $ sudo strace -p 1838
> Process 1838 attached - interrupt to quit
> time(NULL)                              = 1223226565
> epoll_wait(0,  <unfinished ...>
> Process 1838 detached

That's unfortunately not very insightful.

Can you please do "cupsctl --debug-logging", then try to add the
printer and thus replicate the hang, and then attach
/var/log/cups/error_log?

Thanks!

Martin

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